#tumblr purge survivor

[trumpetnista]

ANOTHER 1000 POSTS!

215K and counting! Thank you to all 2,788 of you guys (plus everyone in my activity chart area…) for following, enjoying, and tolerating LiveLoveWRITE for all of these years (as of 5 January 2022, it’s been 12 years since I joined Tumblr! Wow!) down various fandom rabbit holes, through The Great Tumblr Purge of December 2018 (which didn’t work properly to nobody’s surprise. JUST DELETE THE PORN BOTS, PEDOPHILES, AND THE NAZIS, YOU IMBECILES! PROBLEM SOLVED FOREVER.), through the latest change of owners/dubious U.I. changes (I give it 6 months to a year before they give up on their “investment” and leave with their tail tucked between their legs…) and my ongoing evolution into a pale blog with a heavy focus on cottagecore and its various branches nowadays.

I would also like to give a very special shout-out to The Walking Dead/Richonne/Carnid folks who have welcomed me with open arms into their post apocalyptic world (what’s left of it after all the absolutely EXCELLENT writing…), the GOTHAMITES who have welcomed me as a lifelong citizen (the show may be over now but Gotham will always be my home!), and as always, mad love to all of the Gladiators who still follow me despite the show (mercifully!) being over and those who keep enjoying my mashups on here and my ongoing efforts at clever (usually not, but it’s funny 9 times out of 10…) live and before/after the show commentary on Twitter for both old and new fandoms. The acceptance from everyone makes things infinitely more fun around here! Here’s my favorite owls and some other appropriate pics and here’s to at least a thousand more!

[mclmm-us]

1000 posts!

You gotta (re)start somewhere

[gae-bolg-alternative-dot-exe]

falling halfway into tentacle pit isn't ever my first pixiv search choice but this artwork genuinely hits different

[bibliophilea]

So... this isn't the first time I've seen people being incredibly mean to a whole section of the phandom. It's the first time in a while I've seen a post this bad in the main "danny phantom" tag, though. I have Thoughts™ that have been stewing for a while. Thoughts™ that shouldn't be put in the tags of someone else's post.

I'm not going to link anything. These are just my thoughts, raised to the forefront by recent posts in the main tag.

TLDR: I have two main Thoughts™:

No matter what you ship, I welcome you to this phandom. The folks who openly despise real people for shipping fictional things do not represent all of phandom. Y'all deserve better than being called shitty names. Your ships do not make you a bad person, and I personally welcome you.

To y'all who keep trying to draw a line in the sand to define who is "degenerate" or whose work is "degenerate": the moment you draw that line, you create a way for others to shove people behind that line. And the folks who usually get shoved behind that line and called "degenerate" are lgbtqia+ folks, and sa/csa survivors. It's happened before on LiveJournal and FFN, and it's happening now, irl, with book bannings across the USA (and especially in Florida). The only way to protect lgbtqia+ folks and sa/csa survivors from this abuse is to not draw a line in the sand at all. Don't call folks "degenerate" for any reason, unless you're ready to have that finger pointed back at you by a larger and more negative movement.

If you desire fuller context, it's below the cut.

First: no matter what you ship, I welcome you to this phandom.

The views of hatred and disgust that pop up in this phandom don't represent all of phandom. No fandom is perfect, and we'll always see some form of the "logic of disgust" from some folks in any fandom. But no matter what you ship, and whether or not I personally ship it, I welcome you. You will find no disgust from me as I am now.

If you dig backwards into my blog, you might find some anti sentiment. My introduction to fandom was first FFN, and then tumblr, back when I was more of a black-and-white thinker. I'm pretty sure I experienced some form of shock when I really started digging in to the Wild West that is fandom. I don't know if I ever expressed this shock online. But none of you deserve to be called "degenerates" over liking whatever fictional content you like. Y'all are a part of phandom, too, and any attempts to erase you or deride you are wrong.

We shouldn't be drawing lines in the sand and throwing people behind those lines. That's dangerous.

Second: to y'all who keep drawing lines in the sand, please consider the broader context around you.

The moment you draw a line in the sand to delineate between you and your group of people, and "them" and their group of "degenerates", people find ways to shove other folks, including you and your folks, behind that line. Historically, both in fandom and outside of fandom, the folks who get shoved ALWAYS include lgbtqia+ folks, and sa/csa survivors. We saw this with the purging of LiveJournal. We saw this with the multiple purges of FanFiction.Net. We haven't seen this with ao3, as far as I know; but their stance seems to be very anti-censorship for fandom-historical reasons.

Outside of fandom, we are seeing this now. I'm doing my senior capstone project on book bans. According to PEN America's data, over the past school year alone, 154 counties in 34 states have banned 1557 books 3362 times overall. Over 40% of those bans come from Florida counties. And much of the "reasoning" behind these bans is the same logic of disgust that fandom applies to "problematic ships": They call it pornographic and pedophilia. They call it harmful and age-inappropriate. They largely target books about lgbtqia+ people and people of color. And this year, they've also targeted "books on physical abuse, health and well-being, and themes of grief and death" - expanding their censorship to "protect the children".

Censorship doesn't protect anyone. Instead, it prevents people from holding genuine conversations with real people about the censored material.

And if you're not ready to have that conversation, that's fine! You do you! But don't create an environment where other people can't have that conversation. That only breeds the sort of black-and-white thinking that leads to 1406 book bannings in the state of Florida.

This is just speculation on my part: but I reckon every single person who supports those bans would love to ban the same content you want censored. And they'd call for you and the content you love to be lumped in with them.

We all deserve better than that. So please stop drawing lines in the sand.

[bioethicists]

Do you perhaps have any resources on a harm reduction approach to disordered eating? it's been tough to find specific of this online and conventional websites only offer "talk to your loved one about what they feel" or either going to the GP. Certainly haven't found resources to help when you are not someone's parent/teacher/etc

the search function on this website is abysmal so i can't find the post but @transmutationisms wrote a very detailed summary of harm reduction tactics for disordered eating!

@librarycards has an entry in the psychiatric survivor zine called "Refuse!" which touches on the themes, as well as going into how to reduce your own fatphobia while still engaging in ED behaviors

Saving Our Own Lives has some chapters on it but i don't find them to be super comprehensive, quite honestly

there is some useful info in this Filter Mag article, as well as some background on why harm reduction is pushed back against in the ED field

Gloria Lucas' nonprofit Nalgona Positivity Pride has this as one of their focuses

while i wouldn't necessarily suggest seeking them out (at least evaluate what is/isn't going to be detrimental for you), the first place i ever encountered harm reduction for anything was in "pro" spaces (don't really want to type it out + get this post flagged). i wouldn't trust any information about nutrition you see in those spaces, but there are often threads about safer purging, specific scenarios, signs of common health effects + how ppl make them more manageable, etc. unfortunately, barring individual blogs on tumblr, these are the only places i can think of that you would be able to ask extremely specific questions + get a serious, non-condescending reply in a timely manner without being banned or reported (you are welcome to ask me specific questions + i can answer based on my personal experiences)

[specialagentartemis]

Hi there, I'm coming from that post you made on historical revisions; how come you include praise for the USSR? Marxist-Leninist states saw that after the USSR's collapse, there was a marked decrease in quality of life and an increase in human suffering. The people that were affected negatively were the upper-middle to upper-class and the rich, which is why business owners and the like fled Cuba and other countries. This isn't a debate, historians and academics largely agree that the USSR overall was a good thing, and that the US was the problem. I'd link references but Tumblr doesn't let you do that anymore, but you can look it up anywhere and it will largely corroborate their claims.

"you can look it up anywhere and it will largely corroborate their claims." Okay, anon! I'll take you up on that!

Hmm looking up. "Stalinism thus became an outright symbol of Stalin's ruthless authoritarian rule over the U.S.S.R. and the multinational forces misrepresented as the international Communist movement during the dictator's lifetime." nope. how about: "... This was particularly the case during the purge era in the second half of the decade when diplomats were faced with the difficulties of representing a regime which had unleashed terror on its people, as well as having to deal with the fear that they too might perish in the purges." hmm nope. "Numerous scholars and survivors of the USSR's "Great Terror," a common designation for the years 1935-1939, have described the period as one of sweeping or even total fear among the Soviet population.'" uh oh. Well maybe the perspective has changed since the 80s--"From mid-1937 to nearly the end of 1938, the Soviet secret police carried out a mass terror against ordinary citizens. This "kulak operation," as it was called, accounted for about half of all executions during the "Great Purges" of 1937-38. By the time it ended in November 1938, 767,397 persons had been sentenced by summary troikas; 386,798 of them to death and the remainder to terms in GULAG camps." well surely not everyone believes this, you SAID I could look it up anywhere--"Political terror was part and parcel of Soviet politics. Within the context of world history, Soviet terror is not necessarily unique; mass terror is characteristic of many forms of politics (such as Hitler's Germany, Mao's China, and Pol Pot's Cambodia). Within the context of Soviet history, however, the Great Terror of 1937-1938 is unique in that it was a policy of extraordinarily intense, concentrated, and purposeful killing of, at least, hundreds of thousands of people." but--"The ‘mass operations’ were large-scale campaigns of state repression, spanning from summer 1937 to autumn 1938, and marked the high point of the Great Terror. The first operation was launched on 30 July 1937 against former kulaks and other ‘anti-Soviet elements’; thereafter, similar operations targeted a range of different population groups, including national minorities such as Poles, Germans and Koreans." what about "Two decades have passed since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, but if you so much as scratch the surface of most family histories, you are likely to discover first-hand experiences of Gulags and deportations, dekulakisation and State terror. Yet there have been no legal processes put into place by which the atrocities of Stalinism would be officially recognised and condemned as crimes against humanity." noooo you said that historians were generally in agreement that the USSR was good! Maybe you meant, better in terms of personal freedoms than the US was at the time--oh. "Stalin's Soviet Union (U.S.S.R.) treated homosexuality as suspicious activity linked to sabotage, espionage, and a lack of political reliability. The U.S.S.R.'s most celebrated playwright Maxim Gorky was unequivocal in 1934 in seeing homosexuality as antithetical to the tenets of communism: "exterminate homosexuals and fascism (itself) will disappear." Homophobia ran rampant across the political spectrum." Uhhh here's a less harsh description of gulags? "Conditions were brutal and mortality rates were frighteningly high, with total deaths in the Gulag reaching well into the millions. Yet millions also survived and were released. No fewer than twenty percent of the Gulag population was released every year. At no point did the Gulag evolve into a system of industrialized death camps. Most Gulag prisoners stood at a crossroads. From the inhuman conditions in detention camps, prisoners would either reach redemption (and return to the social body) or final excision from society (through death)." damning with faint praise. Even this fairly neutral description of Stalin's rise from a source very sympathetic to the early revolutionaries describes the arrest, torture, imprisonment, and execution of Stalin's political enemies.

Maybe you simply mean economically. Here's an article that has lukewarm-at-best praise for the Soviet economy in the 60s-80s. Not horrible, certainly acknowledging the standard of living brought about by industrialization, but not glowing either. The freedom of women in the Soviet Union also wasn't bad. I can be fair.

But genuinely, Anon, historians don't even agree on whether relationships between the USSR and Poland were one of imperial control and denial of self-governance or undeniably imperial but more ambivalent relationship between the USSR and Poland in the post-WWII divvying up of influence in Europe between Churchill and Stalin, or whether Poles were actively persecuted and systematically murdered and if it should be counted as a genocide. Historians don't agree whether the USSR was a relatively safe place for Jews and pogroms were rare until WWII and only saw violent and repressive antisemitic policy become entrenched later under Khruschev, or if Stalin oversaw state-sanctioned anti-Jewish purges in the 1930s. Historians don't even agree on how many people died in the Holodomor. (This paper and this paper argue that Ukrainian archives and data were destroyed to intentionally obscure how many people died.)

The collapse of the Soviet Union saw a lot of conflict and difficulty in the post-Cold War world, as any really dramatic and sudden political transition will; some countries had positive outcomes, other countries had negative ones. Organized crime ramped up to fill political voids. Doesn't mean that the USSR "overall was a good thing" and certainly doesn't mean there's academic consensus about it.

[dzthenerd490]

You're not exactly what I'd call a political profile so why involve yourself with the Palestine war. Look the middle east is in war all the time how is this any different? If those morons are going to just keep killing each other then I say let them.

... This actually kinda makes me want to cry a little at how ignorant that comment was.

It's not a war, its genocide flat out GENOCIDE. The people of Palestine have done nothing wrong, simply because the people of Israel believe they are the "Chosen people" or the fact that they want the Palestinian land and thus came to the stupid conclusion that Palestinians are unworthy of life or should be purged simply for existing. They are fucking monsters, every single one of them and are hiding behind lies, money, and religion to keep things going their way. You probably think I'm racist for saying that Israel is a terrorist state or that it's all evil, well let me tell you this.

They don't care that 40% or more of Palestinians slaughtered are children.

They don't care that the survivors are starving to death.

They don't care that most they have slaughtered couldn't even fight back.

They are actively trying to sell stolen Palestinian land to get U.S. civilians to promote them as the good guys.

They are actively spreading online propaganda that the Palestinians are "getting what they deserve".

The are also spreading TikTok propaganda to show the IDF as true heroes just like how the U.S. uses TikTok to promote the military as "totally awesome" and not lame or psychologically damaging at all.

And they want everyone to feel bad about badgering them for causing the genocide in the first place. THEY WAN'T YOU TO FEEL BAD ABOUT GETTING MAD AT THEM FOR COMMITTING GENOCIDE! HOW MUCH MORE FUCKING PETTY CAN THEY GET?

Everyone hated the German Nazi's under Hitler and like to talk about how much of a stupid shit he was. Yet when modern Nazi's like white Neo Nazi inbred fucks or petty ass Isralian Nazi shits show up suddenly the Western media and almost everyone in the world just wants to turn their heads and focus on other stuff. Worst off some are even willing to say Israel are the victims or really their geocide is justified, its absolute bullshit. They there are people like you that clearly don't understand the situation.

Your right I'm not a political Tumblr blogger I just like to reblog that stuff so everyone can stop ignoring the blatant genocide that is happening. Barely anyone focuses on them anyways, but I still do it, why? Because I can't stop, no I won't stop. I'll never stop until this conflict is over and Israel pays for what it's done. Even if that never happens, I'll never let them forget or let their children forget the monsters they were.

I know I'm barely making a difference in the end, but I don't care. Until it's over I'll keep saying it, Israel is a Terrorist State.

Never Forget Palestine's Pain!

Never Forgive Israel's Crimes!

Long Live Palestine!

From the river to the sea Palestine will be free!

[mothmorality]

my muses can be found here i post and reblog plots i'd like to write here

open starters are here

ask memes are here!

hello!!! my name is moth (she/her) and i'd love to get some more writing going while i do my replies! i write here on tumblr and also on discord!

i am 21 years old and i will not roleplay with anyone under the age of 18…

i am a huge fan of anything horror related, dead dove, angsty, anything dark really. i enjoy writing smut but do not necessarily need it if you are uncomfortable. 

i much much much prefer to write as the female, but can absolutely still write males. i am a semi lit-adv lit writer, though i mostly just match whatever length my partner sends  i'm not picky.

keep reading for some pairings/plots/fandoms!

NOW… onto the pairings/plots/fandoms!

italics are cravings, bold is who i'd prefer to write as…

dystopia/apocalypse!

professor x student

non-fan x celebrity

vampire x human

vampire x vampire hunter

pirate/sailor x siren

ghost x human

assassin x target

ex x ex

bodyguard x client

older neighbor x new younger neighbor

serial killer x serial killer

serial killer x innocent

accidental murderer x skilled murderer

​​​​​​​fandoms/fav movies and shows

yellowjackets

the hunger games

the last of us

final destination

the walking dead

scream

the 100

the uglies series

the purge

lost

fresh

some very basic plot ideas:

(yellowjackets based) Our muses get stranded in a remote area after a horrific plane crash. they must navigate young adulthood with the rest of the passengers starving, terrified, and hopeless. supernatural forces throughout the forest begin to make themselves known, and our survivors see themselves going down darker and darker paths until they cannot recognize themselves anymore, convinced society has moved on from rescuing them anymore

(serial killers/kill for hires lover) Muse A is a killer, and also a wonderful partner. muse B is their long term partner, blissfully unaware of their lovers real profession until muse B catches muse A in a very compromising position. lots of angst, hurt/comfort, dark themes

(haunted) our muses are urban explorers, they find themselves inside an old abandoned theme park from decades ago, decaying from the inside out. while walking around, they discover that they haven't seen the way out, or any way out, even once. things are moving that shouldn't be, and they are hearing more and more off putting noises. what happens when the spirits finally show themselves? how will our muses appease them, or fight to escape?

(​​​​​​​apocalypse) muse A and muse B are life long enemies, constantly trying to one up the other and always hating being around each other. when they are forced to work together on a work project and the apocalypse hits, they are forced to either let their pettiness win and be alone through all of this horror, or stay together and try to survive as a team. various traumatic events bond them closer and closer until they discover hidden feelings beneath layers of vines. enemies to lovers

thank you so much for reading!! like this post if anything interests you and i'll send you a message! feel free to message me as well <3

[tinkrtailrsldrspy]

Ramblings from a Fandom Veteran

So... I've been wondering if I should openly talk about the state of fandom right now for some time...

See, while I'm not "old", I have been in this space for a very, very long time. I deleted my original blog some time ago, but I first joined Tumblr around... I want to say 2010? 2011?

Back then, it was huge! A giant space for every sect of fandom to frolic, where we thrived together! It was a bit like the wild west, no rules and only unknown ahead of us!

...I loved Tumblr back then...

I fell off Tumblr sometime in 2014, before the Purge. I was there when our beloved site was bought by Yahoo, but because nothing changed immediately, we all assumed we were free to go about our day-to-day lives without a worry.

I see that we were wrong.

See, I got busy with the real world. College and physical illness meant I had precious little time for my favorite internet hang-outs. I stopped drawing, wrote very little... It's only been in the past two years that I've had the time and energy to re-join fandom as a whole. And I was so excited to see what this new future held for me!

I... I'm almost sorry I did.

I had never heard of Pro- and Anti-Shippers.

It was an entirely foreign concept to me! After all, we were a live and let-live community, weren't we? You know, your kink is not my kink and all that? I'd seen hate in the community before, granted, but what I knew had never been this toxic!

Entire legions were gone, and what remains were only the brave, bitter survivors, desperately clinging onto what was left. I...

I didn't, and still don't, know what to say, really.

Where was the community I had grown up in? The artists and writers and just people who had coexisted for years without much issue? A decade isn't that long, right? Surely, everything I had known and loved about this world wasn't just gone, right?

When I was growing up, this place and places like it were a refuge for me. I was going through... so, so much at the time... and the people I found here helped me through it. I had friends and support from every corner of fandom, whether we shared a common interest or not.

What I see now... I truly wish I could express just how heartbroken I am that we've allowed ourselves to become this. We used to be a safe-space, where bullies could never reach...

I never thought we'd become the bullies.

[vriskarlmarx]

13, 15, 25, 26 for ask game?

thanks for the ask fellow tumblr university survivor 🫡 from here

13. first thing you’re doing in the purge?

political assassination. obviously. not sure exactly whose? but there are many candidates. perhaps andrés chadwick.

15. rank the methods of death: freezing, burning, drowning

I've heard if you're freezing to death you fall asleep first? so probably freezing. drowning sounds painful but probably less so than burning? so 1. freezing 2. drowning 3. burning

25. would you say you have good taste in music?

no! it's completely arbitrary what i get really into at any given moment.

26. how’s your spice tolerance?

reasonably good? most of what i eat in terms of salty food is spicy. that said, it's definitely not outstandingly high or anything. i like things to be consistently mildly spicy and i can handle fairly spicy or pretty spicy just fine(?)

[plumsaffron]

Man I remember a tumblr user named ozmav allegedly started the Mari/bat ship which then spiraled outta control by the mentally deficient rabid salters since 2019. Checking online, ozmav’s accounts are inactive since 2021? Guess that person realized the negative attention they’ve received and completely jetted, leaving the tunnelvisioned brainwashed miracubitches to take the criticism and heat from the sane minded. Um bitch, what do you think would happen when you create a nonsensical ship within an unstable community? Not to victim blame or anything but I bet they were not predicting how bad the salters would get later on.

Since early 2021, I’m a recovering victim from the immense stupidity and closed-mindedness of the miracusalters like some people here. I’m thankful that there were some rational smart folks contradicting the stupid rabid fandoms otherwise I’d be stuck for a long ass time, being very mentally messed up by the salters’ lies and misinformation.

#ml salt survivor #surviving the stupid salters #salter survivor #i survived the ml salt fandom! #ml salt is a cult #ml salt is legitimately stupid #ml salt is for dumbasses #ml salt is for stupid people #ml salt causes brain rot #ml salt is toxic #toxic ml salt #salters cannot be reasoned with #ml salters are fragile little shits #salters be allergic to criticism

Pfft! These tags are joke tags! But you can go ahead and use them plum! Though I literally just saw your reblog of ppl dead ass comparing a deceased rl war criminal to Lila which is stupid! Reminded me of stupid ass bitches comparing bad or controversial musicians to actual criminals years ago… it’s like these people forgot that categories exist for a reason.

Though seeing the toxic Xover hetero ships like that on AO3, Wattpad and FFN dead ass makes me embarrassed as a heterosexual person. Anyone else feeling like they’d want to commit hetero erasure on themselves and even purge their own content of canon or fanon wholesome healthy het ships? Sigh* And some miracubozos claim to be lgbt+ open minded folks yet I’d sometimes keep on seeing the “evil cishet” characters like Lila or the occasional brainwashed follower of hers in their fics. Ngl, thought that was pronounced “ci-shet” or “cis-shet” instead of “cis-het.”

Very well then. I’ll include them tags.

*Sighs*. Stupid people will make absurd comparisons about anything.

Heh miracubozos claims. Sort of reminds me of when they say in tags that the character(s) deserves better but what they say doesn’t better things, it just makes it worse or puts them down (while ironically not liking this other character being put down similarly in various degrees canonically).

Or one that claims to be fan or defender of the character(s) but will say somethings without thinking carefully in an already polluted environment while ignoring they are giving the polluters more ammo against who they are a fan of.

I wish more sane peeps were here.

Salt is probably a cult (especially when a loser or reblogger or drones can say some manure end up getting over 150-300 notes at least)

Welp. That alleged thing though reminds me a lot about this clip

[trumpetnista]

ANOTHER 1000 POSTS!

217K and counting! Thank you to all 2,792 of you guys (plus everyone in my activity chart area…) for following, enjoying, and tolerating LiveLoveWRITE for all of these years (as of 5 January 2023, it’s been 13 years since I joined Tumblr! Wow!) down various fandom rabbit holes, through The Great Tumblr Purge of December 2018 (which didn’t work properly to nobody’s surprise. JUST DELETE THE PORN BOTS, PEDOPHILES, AND THE NAZIS, YOU IMBECILES! PROBLEM SOLVED FOREVER.), through the latest change of owners (I give it 6 months to a year before they give up on their “investment” and leave with their tail tucked between their legs…) and my ongoing evolution into a color blog.

I would also like to give a very special shout-out to The Walking Dead/Richonne/Carnid folks who have welcomed me with open arms into their post apocalyptic world (what’s left of it after all the absolutely EXCELLENT writing…), the GOTHAMITES who have welcomed me as a lifelong citizen (the show may be over now but Gotham will always be my home!), and as always, mad love to all of the Gladiators who still follow me despite the show (mercifully!) being over and those who keep enjoying my mashups on here and my ongoing efforts at clever (usually not, but it’s funny 9 times out of 10…) live and before/after the show commentary on Twitter for both old and new fandoms. The acceptance from everyone makes things infinitely more fun around here! Here’s my favorite owls and some other appropriate pics and here’s to at least a thousand more!

[virtie333]

WIP Wednesday

I'm going a little insane. Maybe more than a little. This story, like Kinetic was two years ago, is my sanity right now. I was going to share some of the smut I wrote a short time ago, but I hope you don't hate me if I hold off on that for a bit; there's so little of it in this story, I don't want to give away too much.

Then again, not many people will read this, as I'm pretty sure most of my regular readers are not on Tumblr, but that's okay. They'll get it eventually. I've estimated that there are about 7 chapters left, but you know as well as I how easy that could change. But the end is in sight!

(BTW, this story is about 200 words away from becoming my longest Damerey story to date!)

Whenever Poe was done with whatever task he had been busy with, he would find his way to the little cave on the far side of the lake, clean up as best he could, then wrap himself around an already sleeping Rey, as it was inevitably the middle of the night when his work was done for the day. She would wake early and regretfully slide out of their bed (which eventually became a cot rather than a makeshift pallet on the floor), leaving him to sleep as long as he could. Other than a few shared meals of their own, they rarely saw each other while they were both awake.

It was disappointing, but Rey admitted to Leia that at least knowing the other would eventually come ‘home’ was a comforting feeling.

Despite their rough start, Rey eventually learned to enjoy being with Luke, and she learned to appreciate his dry sense of humor. He spoke to her about the history of the Jedi, things he had learned in the years following the war with the Empire, and stories he had gathered from other survivors. He talked about the Bokken Jedi, Force sensitives that had been trained after the destruction of the Jedi order by survivors of the purge. Unfortunately, most of those survivors had been padawans, whose training had been incomplete, making their own training inadequate.

“Including yours?” Rey had asked.

“Especially mine,” he had told her. “I only learned the basics from Obi-wan and Yoda. But at least I had two Masters training me. And there’s my heritage, of course, which is either something to take pride in or something to try and rise above, depending on your point of view.”

[ryan-shepard-writes]

In light of tumblr's decision to purge CSA survivors from their website, I am heavily considering simply walking away.

[plague-of-insomnia]

So I guess I should say it now, just in case —

If I am terminated, and can’t be restored, I may not come back to tumblr.

I have a personal website I may begin using again as my main posting place (aside from AO3), chiealeman.com

You can also now find me on DreamWidth (but I just signed up so idk how much I’ll use it yet) @ plague-of-insomnia.dreamwidth.org

I’m also @/chiealeman on Twitter and @/plague_of_insomnia on IG, but I’m not super active on either atm.

And ofc, my AO3 is plague of insomnia/chiealeman.

I do hope that tumblr won’t remain on this path, or it could be the sign of the end of this site at long last. And just when we thought maybe they were beginning to actually turn things around.

I’m so, so disappointed especially with how tumblr has been treating survivors discussing their experiences and also for how it’s treating many queer people. In the past, many of the reported accounts were driven by Christian fundamental groups who want to purge all queer and “ungodly” content, and anyone claiming to be progressive who aligns with those kinds of people…. You really should look at the mirror and think hard about what you’re doing.

[gae-bolg-alternative-dot-exe]

what does the purge survivor tag mean on dummy-dot-exe? i can't spot any common thread between images that have it

it's my nsfw tag for posts likely to get flagged by tumblr. In 2018/19 when the porn purge happened, posts tagged as nsfw no matter what, would get auto flagged so people had to make unique tags for nsfw or very lewd posts. Purge survivor is my own and it has stuck since.